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Changiz Mohiyeddini, Ph.D., is a tenured Professor of Behavioral Medicine and Psychopathology at the Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine. His research examines how people regulate emotion, navigate uncertainty, and build the kind of resilience that holds up under real-world pressure — from medical trainees facing burnout to communities living with displacement to individuals confronting questions about identity and meaning in an age of accelerating change. He is the founding Editor-in-Chief of the Health Psychology section of Frontiers in Psychology, has authored more than 100 publications and edited volumes, and currently leads research projects on positive childhood experiences, sleep, loneliness, and the psychological consequences of artificial intelligence in everyday life.

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The Healing Trap
Recovery advice asks for patience and reframing—capacities that healing produces rather than requires. The exit is borrowed regulation and lowered stakes.
On Childhood Trauma, Growth, and Being the Author of Your Story

My mentor’s strangest advice, the most puzzling sentence I tell my students, and the science of deciding what your past means.

My mentor’s strangest advice, the most puzzling sentence I tell my students, and the science of deciding what your past means.

"You're a Psychologist. You Know..."

After 30 years in psychology, I keep hearing the same phrase—often followed by something that my field rejected decades ago. The interesting part is why we all do this.

After 30 years in psychology, I keep hearing the same phrase—often followed by something that my field rejected decades ago. The interesting part is why we all do this.

What Your GPS Knows About Friendship

Miss a turn, and your GPS never sighs, blames, or brings up last time. It recalculates—the best model of compassion on the market.

Miss a turn, and your GPS never sighs, blames, or brings up last time. It recalculates—the best model of compassion on the market.

Healing Is a Time-Release Capsule

Healing is not instant—it is a time-release capsule with strange mathematics, where 2 + 2 sometimes equals 10. And self-compassion is its engine.

Healing is not instant—it is a time-release capsule with strange mathematics, where 2 + 2 sometimes equals 10. And self-compassion is its engine.

The Power of Small Words

'Mama.' 'Home.' Two ordinary words, two lives changed. Why the smallest words reach us where the greatest quotations cannot.

'Mama.' 'Home.' Two ordinary words, two lives changed. Why the smallest words reach us where the greatest quotations cannot.

What Decides Whether a Day Is Seized?

In a hospice room with no flowers and no visitors, a retired teacher with a sticky note reading "carpe diem" showed me what actually makes a day count.

In a hospice room with no flowers and no visitors, a retired teacher with a sticky note reading "carpe diem" showed me what actually makes a day count.

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